Turbulent Times Chapter 1421: Shocking the world

At the beginning of April, the weather gradually became warmer. It has been more than half a year since Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty came back from Yanmen City. Many things have naturally happened in such a long time, such as changes in the world situation, and some counties have increased. Rebels, a certain powerful family secretly plotting evil, and so on!

But what angered Yang Guang the most was that Wagangzhai had unknowingly controlled the two surrounding counties, and Yang Guang got the news that Li Yuan in Taiyuan had secretly controlled the other three counties in Bingzhou, and the most let him To his surprise, Dugu Changsu, the leader of the Dugu Clan, disappeared quietly with all the members of the Dugu family in Luoyang, without even saying hello to him.

In addition, Mayi County, which was taken back by Wang Junlin from Liu Wuzhou, was actually occupied by a group of horse thieves from outside the region at the beginning of the year.

Whether it's Wagang Village, Taiyuan Liyuan, or Mayi County, Yang Guang naturally can't sit idly by.

First of all, he ordered the soldiers and horses of the counties and counties around Wagang Village to suppress the bandits, but except for Zhang Xutuo who wiped out the more than 20,000 rebels who followed Wagang Village in Henan, the soldiers and horses of other counties were more undefeated than victorious. Otherwise, they simply wandered around with their men and horses, and they didn't dare to fight the Wagang bandits at all.

What annoyed Yang Guang the most was Li Yuan from Taiyuan County. He had always looked down on and despised this cousin, and he never believed that the other party had the guts to rebel.

But now the facts are just the opposite. Except that Li Yuan has not raised the flag of rebellion openly, his nature is almost the same as that of Wang Junlin in Fanyang County.

Because he issued an order to summon Li Yuan, but the other party refused to come because of his serious illness, and he ordered Li Yuan's eldest son Li Jiancheng to go to Beijing instead of his father, but the other party still refused to obey the order because Li Jiancheng wanted to take care of government affairs for his father.

Yang Guang thought of Li Shimin's extraordinaryness, and ordered Li Shimin to enter Beijing, but the reason from Taiyuan was that the Turkic people were ready to move, and the border was unstable, so Li Shimin led troops to inspect the border.

The Li family of Taiyuan naturally made Yang Guang furious, but there was nothing he could do. He called a group of ministers to discuss the crusade against Li Yuan, but few people at the court agreed.

This suddenly woke Yang Guang up, and combined with the Dugu family's evacuation of Luoyang, he faintly discovered that in places he couldn't see, various powerful families had secretly colluded to do a big thing—to help

Hold Li Yuan to replace him.

Naturally, Mayi County could not just sit idly by, and also ordered the surrounding counties to attack the group of horse thieves who dared to come to the Sui Dynasty to run wild, but the result was unacceptable to Yang Guang. Wuyuan County and the other three counties formed The 80,000 allied forces of the Communist Party of China were defeated and returned.

Just when Sui Emperor Yang Guang was in such a state of anger and panic, a major event that shocked the world happened in Liyang, which is less than 800 miles away from Luoyang, which completely frightened Yang Guang into restlessness.

Li Mi, the second head of the Wagang village, suddenly led an army of 100,000 Wagang troops to attack Liyang warehouse, the largest warehouse in the Sui Dynasty.

Originally, with the strength of the Liyang Warehouse, there are 20,000 government soldiers guarding it, even with a 300,000 army, it will be difficult to conquer for a while. When the time comes, the Luoyang government soldiers will go to support. No army can let Li Yang go before Luoyang is surrounded. The warehouse fell.

But the problem is that no matter how strong the city is, if there is something wrong with the defenders and the interior is captured, no matter how strong the defense is, it will be useless.

And Li Mi is best at this kind of thing. Under the circumstances of internal traitors and opening the city gate, Li Mi took more than an hour to capture the world's No. 1 granary and obtained millions of stones of grain , shocked the world for a while, and the Wagang Army's momentum was second to none among the rebels.

And this was not over yet, Li Mi did another thing that caused a sensation to millions of people in the entire Central Plains.

Li Mi actually persuaded Wagang Village to announce the opening of half of the grain in Liyang Cang. As long as the family is willing to serve Wagang Village and is selected as a warrior, they can take the grain at will.

After the news spread, millions of people from more than a dozen counties in Henan and Hebei, and more than 60 counties in the vicinity of the Central Plains heard the news and flocked to Liyang Warehouse. Ask for food.

With such a great momentum, the local government and officers and soldiers did not dare to act rashly, let alone stop them. Even some county soldiers and small officials who had not been paid for a long time ran to join Wagang Village.

For a time, the young and strong from more than a dozen counties joined the army enthusiastically, so that the Wagang Army recruited more than 100,000 horses in just seven days, and the total strength of Wagang Village quickly grew to more than 400,000 people.

For a time, the Wagang bandits were so powerful that the government and the public were shaken.

And the vicious consequences brought about by the fall of Liyang Cang are not limited to these. The hearts of the court officials are panicked, and hundreds of thousands of government soldiers are shaken, because everyone knows

It is said that the grain tax that the imperial court can collect from the localities is extremely limited, and the fall of the Liyang warehouse will directly affect whether their food rations can be guaranteed.

Besides, Li Mi's talents are far more than that, and his methods are even more sinister and vicious. He sent people to spread rumors in Luoyang, saying that the imperial government's salary has been transported by Liyang warehouse. There are many deserters.

The officials and aristocrats in the capital were panicked, so they naturally bought food in a big way, and those merchants immediately raised the price. In fact, the total amount of food was limited. As a result, the price of food in the capital rose by more than ten in just a few days. times.

The officials in Luoyang panicked, the army was in a state of confusion, and the people in the capital were even more panicked. The entire capital was completely in chaos.

Li Mi's rebellion with Yang Su the year before last and Li Mi's secret contact with the thieves from all walks of life in the Central Plains to deal with the five thousand bugman cavalry led by Wang Junlin at the beginning of last year. It was the first public appearance to directly show his own banner.

Besides, under Li Mi's special propaganda, his identity as a Guanlong nobleman was also spread. Some scholars, small and medium-sized nobles, and big landlords would feel unwilling and uncomfortable if they joined the thieves with mud legs. and worry.

However, Li Mi is a majestic hereditary prince of the state, a nobleman of Guanlong who has been passed down for hundreds of years, and there is a proverb that has been circulated among the people. In the Sui Dynasty, the real dragon emperor who changed dynasties.

In this way, in a short period of time, Li Mi not only saw a surge in soldiers and horses, but also greatly increased his character and mass base. Naturally, these landlords and aristocrats can't just talk about it, or send a few people to eat food. The sum of money and food donated has exceeded the food in Liyang warehouse.

Even under Li Mi's secret operation, these nobles donated money and grain to compare with each other in order to win the title of a so-called founding hero. What's more, they donated all their property, houses and fields to Li Mi, and then the whole family Happily went to Wagang Village, waiting for Li Mi to conquer the world, and then give them a hereditary nobility.

In their view, if the founder of the country is a high official, he will also have a hereditary title, that is, the hero of the founding of the country, and he will naturally get ten times and a hundred times the property and benefits than before.

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